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THE GREAT SPINAL ORGANIC NERVE (THE 
PNEUMO-GASTRIC) IN CATTLE. 
I 
Bi/ Professors Gelle and Lafore, of the Toulouse School, 
[While, from its proximity to the French metropolis, and otlier 
causes, the attention of the veterinary school at Alfort has been 
chiefly, and, at length, almost exclusively devoted to the ana¬ 
tomy and pathology of the horse, a subsidiary school has been 
established at Toulouse, in which, although the horse is not 
neglected, cattle and sheep are the principal objects of attention. 
Such must ere long be the case in another land, if the medical 
treatment of these latter animals, so intimately connected with the 
welfare of the farmer and the interests of the country, continue 
to be either entirely neglected or inefficiently taught. 
The professors of the Toulouse school, and many of the vete¬ 
rinarians of the neighbouring districts, at the commencement of 
the present year, united to establish a new veterinary journal, in 
which no branch of veterinary science should be neglected, but 
which should be especially devoted to the objects for which that 
school was established. 
We have an unfeigned and great respect for the professors of 
the Alfort school. We have reason to know that it is excellently 
conducted, and that the professors honestly and unremittingly 
labour to accomplish the purposes for which it was established. 
They are ever at their post, and their heart is in the cause. 
They ought not—and they will not be jealous, either of the new 
school or its journal. Their common cause will be more effect¬ 
ually promoted. We shall continue to prize the Pecueil —the 
journal of the metropolitan school—for the information which it 
has afforded us, and continues to afford, on every branch of the 
veterinary art; but, at the same time, we shall glean from the 
new periodical many an article, with reference perhaps to the 
horse, but oftener relating to other animals, which, from cir¬ 
cumstances that could not be controlled, were not always regarded 
as they deserved.—Y.] 
In order better to comprehend the peculiarities of this nerve 
in the ox, we w ill transcribe the description which is given of it in 
the horse by M. Girard. 
** In escaping from the cranium through the occipito-temporal 
foramen (foramen lacerum basis cranii), the tenth pair of nerves, 
(the pneumo-gastric) are re-united with the ninth and eleventh 
(the glosso-pharyngeal, and spinal accessory) ; their branches of 
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